Han Yu

Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Yet, as The Curious Human Knee reveals, it is crucial to countless facets of science, medicine, culture, and history—and even what makes us human. The science writer Han Yu provides an informative, surprising, and entertaining exploration of the human knee across time and place. She begins with our earliest ancestors, emphasizing that walking upright separates us from the apes and bipedal knees appeared long before big brains and sophisticated tools. Yu considers the intricate anatomy of the knee, its evolutionary history, and the complexity of treating knee pain, including her own. She examines why women’s knees might be more prone to damage than men’s and addresses the roles of race and class in ailments such as osteoarthritis. This book gets knee-deep into an astonishing range of topics—fashion from flappers to miniskirts and ripped jeans, cultural practices spanning Japanese knee walking and Thai boxing, and more. Yu reflects on the symbolic power of kneeling from the imperial court in China to the football field in the United States and shows why the knee figures into so many social and political phenomena. Distilling a vast amount of research in a style that is engaging, conversational, and even personal and witty, this book opens readers’ eyes to the complexity and significance of the humble knee.

The Curious Human Knee

Xue Li

Fei Fang

Bohan Li

Lin Yue

Jing Jiang

Weitong Chen

Guodong Long

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2021, held in Sydney, Australia in February 2022.* The 26 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections in Part II named: Pattern mining; Graph mining; Text mining; Multimedia and time series data mining; and Classification, clustering and recommendation. * The conference was originally planned for December 2021, but was postponed to 2022.

17th International Conference, ADMA 2021, Sydney, NSW, Australia, February 2–4, 2022, Proceedings, Part II

Advanced Data Mining and Applications

The Other Kind of Funnies refutes the mainstream American cultural assumption that comics have little to do with technical communication-that the former are entertaining (in a low-brow sense) and juvenile, whereas the latter is practical and serious (to the point of stuffiness). The first of its kind, this book demonstrates the exciting possibilities of using comics in technical communication. It defines comics as a medium and art form that includes cartoons, comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels; provides conceptual and historical backgrounds on comics; and discusses the appeals and challenges of using comics-style technical communication. More specifically, it examines comics-style instructions, educational materials, health/risk communication, and political/propaganda communication. The author argues that comics-style technical communication encourages reader participation, produces covert persuasion, facilitates intercultural communication, benefits underprivileged audiences such as children and readers of lower literacy, and challenges the positivist view of technical communication. An abundance of comics-style technical communication examples, carefully selected from across cultures and times, demonstrates the argument. While the book proposes that comics can create user-friendly, visually oriented, engaging, and socially responsible technical communication, it is also quick to acknowledge the limitations and challenges of comics-style technical communication and provides heuristics on how to cope with them. The Other Kind of Funnies is unique in its interdisciplinary approach. It focuses on technical communication but speaks to design, cultural and intercultural studies, historical studies, and to some extent, education, politics, and art.

Comics in Technical Communication

The Other Kind of Funnies

Ben Hutchinson

Qiang Yang

Graham Cormode

Yang Liu

David Evans

Ramesh Raskar

Mehryar Mohri

Zheng Xu

Rachel Cummings

Dawn Song

Mehdi Bennis

Peter Kairouz

H. Brendan McMahan

Brendan Avent

Aurélien Bellet

Arjun Nitin Bhagoji

Kallista Bonawit

Zachary Charles

Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira

Hubert Eichner

Salim El Rouayheb

Josh Gardner

Zachary Garrett

Adrià Gascón

Badih Ghazi

Phillip B. Gibbons

Marco Gruteser

Zaid Harchaoui

Chaoyang He

Lie He

Zhouyuan Huo

Justin Hsu

Martin Jaggi

Tara Javidi

Gauri Joshi

Mikhail Khodak

Jakub Konecný

Aleksandra Korolova

Farinaz Koushanfar

Sanmi Koyejo

Tancrède Lepoint

Prateek Mittal

Richard Nock

Ayfer Özgür

Rasmus Pagh

Daniel Ramage

Mariana Raykova

Weikang Song

Sebastian U. Stich

Ziteng Sun

Ananda Theertha Suresh

Florian Tramèr

Praneeth Vepakomma

Jianyu Wang

Li Xiong

Felix X. Yu

Sen Zhao

The term Federated Learning was coined as recently as 2016 to describe a machine learning setting where multiple entities collaborate in solving a machine learning problem, under the coordination of a central server or service provider. Each client's raw data is stored locally and not exchanged or transferred; instead, focused updates intended for immediate aggregation are used to achieve the learning objective.Since then, the topic has gathered much interest across many different disciplines and the realization that solving many of these interdisciplinary problems likely requires not just machine learning but techniques from distributed optimization, cryptography, security, differential privacy, fairness, compressed sensing, systems, information theory, statistics, and more.This monograph has contributions from leading experts across the disciplines, who describe the latest state-of-the art from their perspective. These contributions have been carefully curated into a comprehensive treatment that enables the reader to understand the work that has been done and get pointers to where effort is required to solve many of the problems before Federated Learning can become a reality in practical systems.Researchers working in the area of distributed systems will find this monograph an enlightening read that may inspire them to work on the many challenging issues that are outlined. This monograph will get the reader up to speed quickly and easily on what is likely to become an increasingly important topic: Federated Learning.

Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning

Mind Thief - the Story of Alzheimer`s

Gerald Savage

Discusses the challenges of intercultural communication inengineering, technical, and related professional fields Given today's globalized technical and engineering environment,intercultural communication is an essential topic for engineers,other technical professionals, and technical communicators tolearn. Engineering programs, in particular, need to think about howto address the ABET requirement for students to develop globalcompetence and communication skills. This book will help readerslearn what intercultural communication is like in theworkplace—which is an important first step in gainingintercultural competence. Through narratives based on the real experiences of workingprofessionals, Negotiating Cultural Encounters: NarratingIntercultural Engineering and Technical Communication covers arange of design, development, research, and documentationprojects—offering an authentic picture of today'sinternational workplace. Narrative contributors present firsthandexperience and perspectives on the complexities and challenges ofworking with multicultural team members, international vendors, anddiverse customers; additional suggested readings and discussionquestions provide students with information on relevant culturalfactors and invite them to think deeply and critically about thenarratives. This collection of narratives: Responds to the need for updated firsthand information inintercultural communication and will help us prepare workplaceprofessionals Covers various topics such as designing e-commerce websites,localizing technical documentation, and translating workplacesafety materials Provides hands-on studies of intercultural professionalcommunication in the workplace Is targeted toward institutions that train engineers fortechnical communication tasks in diverse socioculturalenvironments Presents contributions from a diverse group ofprofessionals Recommends additional material for further pursuit A book unlike any other in its field, Negotiating CulturalEncounters is ideal for all engineering and technicalcommunication professionals seeking to better communicate theirideas and thoughts in the multicultural workplaces of theworld.

Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication

Negotiating Cultural Encounters

Kathryn M. Northcut

This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy section covers topics important to instructors’ everyday teaching as well as longer-term curricular development. Chapters address delivery of rhetorically informed instruction, communication from experts to the publics, writing assessment, online teaching, and communication-intensive pedagogies and curricula.

Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies

Scientific Communication

Alzheimer’s disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world’s most common causes of death. Alzheimer’s lingers for years, with patients’ outward appearance unaffected while their cognitive functions fade away. Patients lose the ability to work and live independently, to remember and recognize. There is still no proven way to treat Alzheimer’s because its causes remain unknown. Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer’s that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. Beginning with the discovery of “presenile dementia” in the early twentieth century, Han Yu examines over a century of research and controversy. She presents the leading hypotheses for what causes Alzheimer’s; discusses each hypothesis’s tangled origins, merits, and gaps; and details their successes and failures. Yu synthesizes a vast amount of medical literature, historical studies, and media interviews, telling the gripping stories of researchers’ struggles while situating science in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. Her chronicling of the trajectory of Alzheimer’s research deftly balances rich scientific detail with attention to the wider implications. In narrating the attempts to find a treatment, Yu also offers a critical account of research and drug development and a consideration of the philosophy of aging. Wide-ranging and accessible, Mind Thief is an important book for all readers interested in the challenge of Alzheimer’s.

The Story of Alzheimer's

Mind Thief

Han Yu

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